Tiger Mom:
The term “Tiger Mom” comes from Amy Chua’s memoir, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”. This type of parenting style originated in Asia, and is predominately practiced in Asia, but is seen across all types of cultures and families. Parents approach their children with extremely high expectations regarding all aspects of life, strict rules, and they constantly push their children to perfection. This approach can be beneficial, as there is research showing high academic performance, exceptional musical abilities, and success in careers later in life as a result of children who have been parented by a “tiger mom”. On the down side, children who have grown up with tiger parents can be depressed, lonely, have low self-esteem and anxiety because their parents tend to not be supportive emotionally. Tiger mom best fits with Baumrind’s “authoritarian” parenting style. Baumrind describes the parent to be cold, rejecting, and critical to the child. The child can become self-conscious and have a low self-esteem.
Jellyfish Dads:
“Jellyfish parents” are permissive parents. They tend to not give their children rules or punishments, allowing them to learn from their own mistakes. They also overindulge their children and can be assumed to be push-overs. The bad-side to this type of parenting is the child can fail to develop respect for authority. They can seem spoiled and demanding. When it is time for them to go on into the work world, they might have difficulty finding a job due to lack of determination and difficulty keeping a job because of authority issues. Contrarily, jellyfish parenting can prevent conflict between the parents and the child. Also, making one’s own mistakes and learning from them can be beneficial. This style most closely relates to Baumrind’s “uninvolved” parenting style. Parents have “little time for child rearing” and are emotionally detached. Kids can have little motivation and be disobedient to authority.
Helicopter Parents:
Helicopter parents are best defined as parents who “hover” their kids and do not want to see them fail. They are extremely involved with their child’s activities, and maybe a little too involved. The parents often try to solve their children’s problems for them and leave them with no room to learn for themselves. This type of style works positively in the fact the child receives positive attention from his/her parents, but negatively in the fact the child does not have room to make decisions and succeed on their own. This style is similar to Baumrind’s “permissive” parenting style. Parents are warm and loving, but overindulgent. Kids can become too dependent on their parents and unaware of how to act on their own.
Good parenting is a cross between all three styles. Parents need to set high standards and goals for their children, but be able to love them and help them when they fail, because they will. Parents need to be involved with their child’s life, but not to the extent the kids are completely dependent on their parents. Rules and boundaries should be set, so they know how to deal with authority. Children often need to make their own mistakes to learn from, but they need parents to aid them through the process.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_mother
http://www.ourkidsmagazine.com/tigers-and-dolphins-and-helicopters/
Tiffany Litton: Psychology 101 
Good job connecting which of these parenting styles matched Baumrind’s descriptions, you made good arguments for each one. I think you are right in talking about your ideal parenting style. There should be a balance because one extreme can not fulfill all the needs of the child. One idea I thought of was parenting styles should shift over time. So, as the children are younger the parent should lean more towards the “tiger parent” role in order to teach kids it is important to follow rules and work hard. Then, as the child grows older, the parent should back off more and become more of a “jellyfish parent”. When children are older (high school age) sometimes it is more beneficial to let them make and learn from their own mistakes and assume responsibility for them because shortly after graduation they will either be in school or working and need those kinds of life experiences. What are you thoughts on my perspective? Agree, disagree, or have any suggestions to improve it?
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It’s interesting to me you selected permissive as the most similar to helicopter parents. That’s the hardest one to classify in my opinion. I hadn’t really thought of the parents acting in an overindulgent manner, but I supposed you could characterize the behavior that way, such as stepping in before the child can experience problems or failure.
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